Halter



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, C. S. UPTON.

HALTER.

Patented Aug. 21,1883.

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HALTER.v

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 283,539, dated August21, 1883.

Application filed June 15, 1883. (No modeLl To all whom 212% mayconcern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES S. Urron, of

Spencerport, Monroe county, New-York, have invented a certain new anduseful Improvement in Halters; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 isaperspective view of the halter. Fig. 2 is side elevation of the same.Fig. 3 is aperspective View of the clamp for attaching the throat-latch.Fi g. 4 is a similar view, but showing a modification. Fig. 5 is adetail view.

My improvement relates to halte rs made ontirely of rope, and consistingof a head-piece, a nose-piece, and a stale or hitching end, which passesthrough a noose in the body of the 11 al ter. Such halters are usuallymade without a throatdatch and are very insecure, as the horse caneasily get it off over his head. In this halter I employ a throat-latchmade of leather; and the invention consists of metallic. clamps ofpeculiar construction, which are adjustable to diiierent heights on therope, and capable of being fixed in place at any position, and eyes orrings on. the clamps to which the straps of the throat-latch. areattached, all as hereinafter described.

In the drawings, A shows the halter made entire from one piece of rope.It consists of a head piece or loop, a, anosepiece, b, and a forming thenose-piece.

stale or hitching end, 0. The rope is first doubled, forming a loop, f,and secured by clamps (Z (Z. One end is then carriedup, forming thehead-piece, and the other forward,

stand in the same plane with the body of the 7 ring. On the back side ofthe clamp is cast The loose end 1 of or otherwise formed an eye or ring,k, to receive the strap of the throat-latch. The eye may be round,square, or of other form, and it may either be formed solid with theclamp, as shown in Fig. 3, or it may pass through the clamp and restloosely thcrcin,'as shown in Fig. 4. Two of these clamps are strung uponthe rope before the halter is formed, and then, after the halter isformed, they are adjusted in position on each side of the head-piece,and then they are clamped in place by turning the spurs 0r teeth 71 idown at right angles and into the rope, which holds them fast in place.The straps mm, forming the throat-latch G, are then attached to the eyesand the halteris complete.

I do not claim in this application, simply and broadly, the ring-clampshaving the spurs or teeth, as these are shown and described in my patentof May 15, 1888; but such clamps alone are not capable of use asathroat-latch fastening; and my invention consists of the clamps providedwith the eyes or rings, as before described, and as shown inthedrawings. By this means the throat-latch can be attached securely torope, which, from its form, is difficultto attach to, and it can also beset higher or lower in fixing it in place, which is not done in anyother halter with which I am acquainted.

A halter thus made can be furnished at the minimum price, and is asstrong and enduring as aleather halter, and has the great advantage ofbeing provided withathroat-latch, so that the horse cannot get it off.

' Having described my invention, I claim- The combination, with thecheek straps or ropes of a halter, of a ring provided with clampingspurs adapted to be bent inward, and having an eye for the attachment ofthe throatlatch, all'substautially as described.

. CHARLES S. UPTON.

\Vitnesses R. F. Oseoon, L. E. Moss.

